You might not realize at first quite what this contraption is, but it’s the first full-fledged steampunk cellphone! It has, “no display. No 3G. No data plan. No games. It doesn’t even have a dial pad,” write the people at Unplggd “You make your calls with binary-coded punch cards, steampunk.”
The device was created by a Mr Arthur Schmitt.
A new steampunk blog popped up fairly recently. Steampunk Pics provides the visitor with charming collection of steampunk imagery, always within a certain scope, be it “Steampunk Toys” or “Steampunk Star Wars” or “Zeppelins” or “Clockworks”.
As the author, Mr Tomasz Armatowski puts it: “I’m on a quest, browsing through the Internet in search of pictures.” A quest certainly successful, we dare say, for the blog is regularly updated to provide the steampunk enthusiast with a new selection of wonderful depictions!
Mr Andy Miller was so inspired by the “Steampunk Ornithopter” we wrote about last October, that he decided to built one himself!
Mr Miller crafted the wings out of a variety of parts, the frames made of bamboo sticks, the cloth being a recycled tablecloth, and the steam engine a copy machine toner cartridge, with a tube from a broken mop for the exhaust pipe! With matching leather aviator helmet and goggles, it makes for a charming outfit indeed! For more information and pictures, click here.
“Our goal is to design items of wonder that are as they would have been in The Time That Never Happened.” That is the motto of Steam Gear Lab, a small company that produces props and makeup effects and provides production design for film, stage and television. All their productions are hand-crafted by two infamous gentlemen, The Notorious Dr. Grymm and Professor Gauthier, Sociologist of the Strange.
We present here a modest selection of their fine work. Be sure to visit their Website for more!
Steampunk is all about “Playing Roles & Dressing-Up” with the third and holiday issue of the Gatehouse Gazette.
Read about the most stylish history maker, Beau Brummell, from Mr James Roberts or discover the glory of the Venetian Carnival in an article by Mr Joost van Ekris. Learn the life story of the first steampunk musician from the man behind Vernian Process himself, Mr Joshua Pfeiffer, and let Mr “Piecraft” teach you about the early history of the dieselpunk genre with the films Metropolis and Man With A Movie Camera.
Furthermore, we have an article about steampunk makeup by Miss Bérengère Couneson, two articles about steampunk role-playing as well as a Steampunk Wardrobe column about the “Airship Pirate” look all by Miss Hilde Heyvaert, reviews of Unhallowed Metropolis, Scarlet Traces and BioShock, plus a column by Professor Delphinius J.C. Tucker.
A Miss Amy Pearson made us aware about the existence of her steampunk-esque comic and kindly requested that we report on it here. Her web-comic, titled “Mathema,” is set in Victorian London and is characterized by steam and clockworks intertwined with themes of magic and mathematics. The comic can be Read Online by everyone and steampunk enthusiasts in particular ought to check it out!
Do you find yourself approving of Miss Pearson’s style, then also visit her Blog for more!
“Flash Gorden, watch out!” With those telling words, the creator of this whimsical outfit begins her description of it. The creator in question is a Miss Amanda Scrivener AKA Professor Maelstromme, who also maintains several items of accessory For Sale.
“This both comfortable and lightweight Ornithopter,” she writes, “with its five minute capacity […] steam reservoir is ideal for performing those mid-flight Airship boarding actions and those days when perambulation does not quite cut it.” The contraption can apparently be operated with a single hand, leaving the other free to protect oneself with such an elegant ray-gun as the lady here is handling.
Many thanks to the author of the Steampunk Pics blog for suggesting this!
Here is one umbrella that should grace every steampunk lady adventurer or aristocrat out to face the elements. Apparently, it was in rather sad shape when its creator found it, “tucked away in a corner in an antique shop.” As she relates in a post at her livejournal, she repaired the fabric and decorated it with over seventeen yards of a mixture of gold and black braids and trims. Now, it makes for a lovely piece of accessory, and if you’ve fallen truly in love with it, you can buy it online!
A little while ago, the talented artists over at Conceptart.org organized another one of their “Environment of the Week” challenges, this one with as theme, “Sky Train Express”. The participants were told to consider that in the “not-too-distant future”, a “fuel crisis has culminated in the crash of the airline industry. A new form of intercontinental travel has been invented,” which uses no fossil fuel and has transformed the face of the Earth, “as the tracks criss-cross the continent.”
Most of the artworks submitted were rather more futuristic than steampunk, yet all are definitely worth a peek. Be sure to check the Thread in question, after having watched our selection of favorites.
Though we are mostly interested in the “lighter side” of steampunk here, a little detour into the possibilities that the darker side of the genre offers might be of interest still, specifically where steampunk meets the macabre, the fantastic, the supernatural, and the bizarre.
First and perhaps foremost, there is of course the “cryptozoological scientific art” of Alex CF. His work is well-known among us, though Mr Alex himself is rather averse to his work being labeled “steampunk”; indeed, his creations might better fit the macabre and whimsical, but they are obviously of interest, no matter how one wishes to call them.
There are, however, many more artists and steampunk enthusiasts alike who mix steampunk and the macabre in ways quite fascinating. We shall introduce you to a few of those, specifically Mr Mike Amend, Mr Timothy Lantz, Miss Lisa Black, as well as Professor Delphinius J.C. Tucker.
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